Word: reamers
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...skilled barrel reamer and glass blower was digging ditches...
William S. Knudsen is a big-boned, 60-year-old Danish-American who likes to make motorcars and more motorcars. If anything interferes with this procedure he gets uneasy, at times even uses words he learned in 1900 when, as a raw immigrant, he was a shipyard's reamer in a New York torpedo-boat plant...
...General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles he: "I've been hurrying ever since." Dane Knudsen's first U. S. job was in a Morris Heights, N. Y. shipyard, as reamer and riveter at $1.75 per day. Evenings he spent in his boarding house, improving his English by listening to the landlady's children. When the shipyard shut down for the winter, he moved on to a job repairing locomotive boilers in the Erie R. R. shops in Salamanca...
...large audience such as usually attends the class day exercises at Columbia was present and received each speaker warmly. H. D. Young, the president of the class, presided. The speakers were C. H. Young, orator, who delivered the address of welcome; J. J. Mapes, class historian; L. C. Reamer, poet; C. S. Baldwin, class prophet; W. C. Humphreys made the presentation, in which it is customary for the speaker to "spring gags" on his class mates. The exercises closed with the singing of the ode by the class...
...faculty for superiority in scholarship. The others were elected by the class last Tuesday and are as follows: Latin poet, H. A. Sill; English speakers, G. T. Warren, Jr., and J. R. Fairchild; for class-day : orator, P. T. Hall; historian, J. J. Mapes; poet, L. C. Reamer; presentation orator, W. C. Humphreys; prophet, C. S. Baldwin. The committees are: for commencement, J. J. Mapes, H. S. Harper, G. Livingston, G. M. Tuttle and A. M. Kane; for class-day, C. H. Young, D. Ewell, J. R. Fairchild, W. R. Powell, H. A. Sill, H. A. Vedder...